Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost at his home in Peshawar, after his release	Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost released in Afghanistan	Abdul Rahim with his brother, Badr, who was also detained in Guantanamo	Abdul Rahim with his son	His brother Badr
Abdul Rahim with his brother Badr

Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost, aka Abdul Rahim Qalamdost, of the eastern Nangarhar province, worked as a journalist prior to his capture. He is 42 years old. He is married and has eight children. He has lived in Peshawar, Pakistan, for 30 years.

He and his brother, Badr ul Zaman Badr, were arrested at their home on Nov. 17, 2001, by Pakistani intelligence agents and eventually taken to the U.S. military facility at Bagram, north of the Afghan capital, Kabul. After about 11 weeks there, he was flown to Guantanamo.

The same line of questioning continued at Guantanamo Bay, with American interrogators also asking him whether he had anything to do with Taliban leaders.

Dost said before his arrest he had worked for three Afghan magazines "Ahsan" (Justice), "Zeray" (Good News) and "Dawat" (Invitation) which were all sympathetic to the Taliban. He said he had once been a member of Afghan rebel leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hizb-e Islami party, but had severed ties to the group.

"I committed no crime against the Americans or anyone else," Dost said.

Dost's brother, Badrul Zaman Badr, was freed from Guantanamo in December 2004.

Dost said on the day he arrived his American jailers forced him to take off his clothes, then photographed him. After that he was taken to a doctor and then given an orange prison jump suit.

"I was never tortured," Dost said. "But I was kept in solitary confinement and that was worse than torture."

Dost said he had heard stories of sexual humiliation, including an American female guard who allegedly threw menstrual blood at an inmate, and male and female guards having sex in front of an Arab detainee.

But Dost and his brother said nothing like that happened to them.

After 14 months of daily interrogation, Dost says he was moved to a cage alongside other inmates who were no longer wanted for questioning.

Finally he was taken to a courtroom at the prison where three people "who looked like judges" briefly heard his case. A few weeks later he was freed without an apology.

The releases lowered the number of detainees classified as "enemy combatants" at the U.S. Navy base on the tip of Cuba to about 520 from about 40 countries.

Dost said he was considering filing a lawsuit to seek compensation for his years behind bars, and that he was thinking of writing a book.

"My business suffered because of my arrest, and my family suffered as well to have two members taken there. My mother is so depressed that she still thinks one day the Americans will come and arrest us again."

He was released on the 17th April 2005. He was not detained in Afghanistan